解读华裔移民家庭在美国社会不幸遭遇的深层原因

On the Deep Reason Contributing to Chinese Immigrant Family's Misfortune in American Society

中国传统家庭观是家族兴旺、家庭和睦的重要根基。而在华裔美国作家任碧莲的长篇小说《典型的美国佬》中,由华裔移民组成的张家却在美国社会沉浮漂泊,屡遭不幸。究其深层原因,在于该家庭的建构根基并非中国传统价值观,而是美国式个人主义。任碧莲通过展现个人主义恣意发展给移民带来的痛苦与不幸,倡导在多元文化背景之下,异质文化的和谐相融。

hinese traditional family values are important grounds for family harmony and prosperity. In Gish Jen＇s novel Typical American, however, the Chinese immigrant family undergoes ups and downs, suffering. It is because their family is constructed on American individualism instead of Chinese values. By exposing the calamities willful individualism bring about, Gish Jen subverts Melting Pot mode of assimilation, and suggests a harmoniously coexistence of Chinese and American culture in a multicultural context.